Neoturris breviconis

• Main Author: Schuchert, Peter
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Anthoathecata; Pandeidae; Neoturris; Neoturris breviconis; Bering Sea; Canada; Jagged; Medusa; San Juan; Shearer
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5592952; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5592952

Neoturris breviconis (Murbach & Shaerer, 1902) Fig. 10 A-E Turris breviconis Murbach & Shearer, 1902: 73. – Murbach & Shearer, 1903: 170, pl. 18 figs 1-2. – Mayer, 1910: 127. in part Leuckartiara brevicornis. – Hartlaub, 1914: 304, figs 254-256. [subsequent incorrect spelling] not Leuckartiara breviconis. ‒ Kramp & Damas, 1925: 280. [= Neoturris pileata (Forsskål, 1775)] in part or not Leuckartiara breviconis. – Kramp, 1926: 80, pl. 2 fig. 8. ‒ Russell, 1953: 198, pl. 12 fig. 2. – Kramp, 1959: 120, fig. 121. – Kramp, 1961: 103. – Kramp, 1968: 4, fig. 124. – Russell, 1970: 246. not Perigonimus breviconis. – Naumov, 1969: 204, fig. 72. [= Catablema multicirratum] Neoturris breviconis. – Arai & Brinckmann-Voss, 1980: 57, figs 31-33, new combination. in part Neoturris breviconis. – Schuchert, 2007: 338, fig. 61A- B, not 61C-E. Type locality: St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea. Material examined: MHNG-INVE-82207, 1 mature specimen in ethanol; Canada, Vancouver Island, 49.0.467°-124.5018°, 0 m depth; collection date 21.05.2012; leg. M. Galbraith. ‒ Several specimens, not in permanent collection; USA, San Juan Island, Friday Harbor, 48.54514°-123.01206°, 0-0.5 m depth, collection date 16.05.2011; DNA isolates 949 and 882, photos Fig. 10, see also Table 1. Presumed Atlantic material was examined for the publication Schuchert (2007). Diagnosis: Neoturris medusa up to 45 mm high, broad, cylindrical bell, without or with shallow apical process, no exumbrellar ridges with nematocysts, manubrium voluminous, about half or less the height of subumbrella, 90-140 tentacles of similar size, interradial gonad region with 5-20 pits per quadrant, no papillae on gonads, radial canals jagged. Manubrium orange-brown sometimes with dark pigment granules at surface of gonads. Description: Medusa up to 45 mm high and 35 mm wide, bell often rather cylindrical, top evenly rounded or with a shallow apical projection. Without exumbrellar ridges with nematocysts. Apical canal above manubrium absent or very thin. ...